Paper Details

Name: Swapna Bijayini
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Volume-13, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 238-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20233547

ABSTRACT
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 establishes free primary education for children ages 6 to 14 while advancing social justice, equality, and inclusive social development. The Act enforcement in rural Odisha faces major difficulties because of problems which exist in social economic factors and infrastructure and administrative systems despite the protection which The constitution stipulates under Article 21A. The study looks at how the RTE Act works in rural Odisha, particularly for members of marginalized populations and tribal tribes. The research utilizes both doctrinal and empirical socio-legal methodologies through constitutional research and judicial analysis and evaluation of government documents and field research and interview and questionnaire data which was collected from 200 study participants. The research study found that major obstacles which restrict access to education include poverty and child labor and teacher deficiencies and insufficient school facilities and gender bias and lack of parental knowledge and ineffective
supervision systems and digital access limitations. The study shows that remote rural areas experience a significant gap which exists between their legal rights and their actual living conditions. The study shows that educational rights in rural India require better governance and improved school facilities and better trained teaching staff and active community involvement and educational programs which support all students.

Keywords: Right to Education Act, Rural Odisha, Educational Rights, Elementary
Education, Socio-Legal Challenges, School Infrastructure, Child Rights, Rural Education,
Educational Policy, Inclusive Educatio.